Description:
This reference guide surveys the field, covering rhetoric's principles, concepts, applications, practical tools, and major thinkers. Drawing on the scholarship and expertise of 288 contributors, the Encyclopedia presents a long-needed overview of rhetoric and its role in contemporary education and communications, discusses rhetoric's contributions to various fields, surveys the applications of this versatile discipline to the teaching of English and language arts, and illustrates its usefulness in all kinds of discourse, argument, and exchange of ideas.
Review Quotes:
"Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition offers the best guide to rhetoric and composition at understood and practiced in the United States." -- Literary Research Guide
"It is helpful to have a source such as this that can help people understand and analyze the ways that a message is crafted and why its creator chose to cast it in a certain way." -- Rettig on Reference
"An invaluable resource for our discipline...impressively broad in scope. These articles provide useful information and enjoyable browsing for even the most expert eye. The Encyclopedia is not only a fine reference, but is also the ultimate coffee-table book. In five years, we'll wonder how we ever did without it." -- Rhetoric Society Quarterly
"A pleasure." -- College Composition and Communication
"Rhetoricians, whatever their disciplinary affiliation, will welcome the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition as the most comprehensive, current reference in English in their field." -- Journal of Communication
"Both students and teachers of rhetoric will find this reference book a useful guide." -- ARBA '970
"A valuable reference source that will be of service to rhetoricians, their students, and those interested in learning about important terms, concepts, figures, theories, and periods in the discipline." -- Quarterly Journal of Speech